Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2] doc/setversions.py: add --get-latest-branch argument

Hi Antonin,

On 4/30/26 3:18 PM, Antonin Godard via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Add a --get-latest-branch argument that can be used to show the latest
> branch from the parsed releases.json file. This will be used by the
> Autobuilder to know what the version of the default bitbake docs page
> should be.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <[email protected]>
> ---
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260429-fix-docs-bitbake-latest-branch-v1-1-25cce6bf4f26@bootlin.com
> 
> Note: Companion patch on yocto-autobuilder-helper:
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fixup help message as suggested by Quentin
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
> 
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
>   doc/setversions.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/setversions.py b/doc/setversions.py
> index f1aea0a4225..dc0bb11e75e 100755
> --- a/doc/setversions.py
> +++ b/doc/setversions.py
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>   # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
>   #
>   
> +import argparse
>   import itertools
>   import json
>   import os
> @@ -23,6 +24,15 @@ import textwrap
>   
>   from urllib.request import urlopen, URLError
>   
> +parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
> +    description="Parse https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/releases.json to get current releases information"
> +)
> +parser.add_argument("--get-latest-branch",
> +                    help="Print current latest branch and exit",
> +                    action="store_true",
> +                    default=False)
> +args = parser.parse_args()
> +
>   # NOTE: the following variables contain default values in case we are not able to fetch
>   # the releases.json file from https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/releases.json
>   DEVBRANCH = "2.18"
> @@ -85,6 +95,10 @@ if RELEASES_FROM_JSON:
>       # current releases is also an LTS
>       ACTIVERELEASES = list(dict.fromkeys([current_branch] + LTSSERIES))
>   
> +if args.get_latest_branch:
> +    print(ACTIVERELEASES[0])

I don't remember how https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/releases.json is 
generated and whether the first entry in the array is necessarily the 
latest available release, but if that's the case then that's fine, so:

Acked-by: Quentin Schulz <[email protected]>

Thanks!
Quentin